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Comments for "Report: Steam Forums Down, Possibly Hacked"enRe: Report: Steam Forums Down, Possibly Hackedhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/11/07/report-steam-forums-down-possibly-hacked#comment-275532
<p>Thankfully the Steam forums use the vBulletin forum software which encrypts account passwords (using md5 with salt) in the database (I know since I&#39;ve set up vBulletin forums before). This makes it absolutely impossible to decrypt them back into plain text again (the wonders of trap-door cryptography).</p>
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<p>The hackers could on the hand change people&#39;s forum (not Steam) passwords if they broke into the Admin Panel but that wouldn&#39;t accomplish anything useful. The worst it seems they&#39;ve done is collected a huge list of user e-mails to spam and that&#39;s about it. Hopefully Valve can just roll back to the latest backup and things will work once again. I guess it depends on how the intruders broke in (phished an admin, found an exploit, etc) which determines how long it will take to prevent future incidents.</p>
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:25:05 +0000djnforce9comment 275532 at http://www.gamepolitics.com